Improvement in hoop-skirts



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.GfO'l".l`FRIEDy BERIING, 0F NEW YORK, NrY.

Leners Putman. 97,750, dated December .7, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT INY Hoop-sanare.V

'.lhe Schedule refenfed to in'these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

.To all whom. lit may concern: y Be it known that 1, GOTTFRIED BIERING, ofthe city of New York, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hoop-Skirts, that Istyle the OrientalSpring-Skirt; and I do hereby declare the following to be au exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanyingl drawings, and to the letters oireference `marked thereon, making a part ot' this specification. j j

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the hoopskirt. t

Figure 2 shows the hoops when paralleland straight with cacl'iother. Y Y

, Figure 3 exhibits the outside or auxiliary hoop, ad justed in curves. j v Y The nature of my invent-ionl consists in combining,

` with the ordinary hoops of a skirt, other additional ones outside of the same, which are adjustable, so as to contract or distend thc dress or other outer garments resting upon the saine, atiplcasurc, by means of j slides connecting the said parts.

"lo enableothers skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe. its construction andv operation, 'as follows:

A`1'e1ncsents the belt 'ofthe skirt, with its clasp B,

in front. 4 A.

C, the` tape or biuidcdii'ont of `the skirt.' 1) D, the braids that support the hoops or wires E,

and are attached to the belt above. i

` 0n the outside of two or more of the hoops or wires ]'l` E, I attach the additionalwircs 'G G, by links or `rings H H, in which the wires .G are --adjusted, the

,links being iiistencdto the hoops E at equi-distances apart, and are guides for the wire G to slide in, back or forward, the wire G being bent in waves or loops, so as to project outward beyond the circumference of th'e skirt, and operates as a spring or elastic projec.

tion for the dress to -hang upon in a graceful manner; and these waves are regulated smaller or largen'as may be desired, by noving the ends J back or forward, which allows the ladys dress to trail or be raised off the ground, suit-able for the parlor or street.

rlhe front ends ofthe wires or hoops G slide backward f or forward between the two front tapes or bra-ids D, so as to shorten or lengthen the wires G, and the ends J do not extend beyond lthe `front tape D, which prevents the ladys foot from coming in contact with the f lhe centre braid C is attached to the belt above by a hook, K, for the purpose of supporting the skirt evenly and regularly in front, and the foot is prevented from catching in the skirt.

I do not claim a second 'series of corrugated hoops, rigidly fixedto the ordina-ry ones, toI form a bustle, which is of itself old; but g lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The' conibimition, with the ordinary hoops E, of a skirt and additional auxiliary and adjustable hoop G, operating as a spring, forming loops, and sliding backward or forward in links H, as herein described and for the purposes set forth.

'j GOTTFRIED BIERING. 'itnesses: v

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, Emi. F. Brown; 

